Image caption,The Sunday Telegraph's lead story reports on claims that "dodgy data" was used to "buy time" by officials who realised figures on rising hospital admissions were needed to justify a lockdown in response to the Omicron variant. The paper says Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health and Security Agency, was the source of a claim that there was typically a 17-day lag between infection and hospitalisation, whereas the Office of National Statistics suggests the gap is 10 days.

Source: The Times December 26, 2021 06:22 UTC